S. Lochlann Jain

S. Lochlann Jain is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University, where she teaches medical and legal anthropology. Her research is devoted to understanding how the inevitable injuries of mass productions and consumption are understood in the United States.

Education

Dr. Jain completed a BA at McGill University, an MPhil at the University of Glasgow, a PhD in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California Santa Cruz, and a Post-Doc at the University of British Columbia. She has received the Cultural Horizons Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, and is a National Endowment for the Humanities grant recipient. Dr. Jain has held Fellowships at the National Humanities Center and the Stanford Humanities Center.

Books and research

Dr. Jain is the author of the widely reviewed^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} book Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States.^[8] Jain also published Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us^[9] in 2013. Malignant offers an analysis of cancer as an all-encompassing aspect of American culture. It was praised in Nature Magazine as being "brilliant and disturbing."^[10][11] "Malignant" was awarded the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing ^[12] and the Diana Forsythe Prize.^[13]

Publications

• Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us. University of California Press. 25 October 2013. ISBN 978-0-520-95682-7.
• “The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial,” Public Culture, 22:1 (Winter, 2010): 89-117.
• “Be Prepared,” in Jonathan Metzl and Anna Kirkland (eds.) Against Health, NYU Press, 2010.
• “Countering Time: The Medical Apology,” in Austin Sarat (ed.) The Subject of Responsibility, Fordham University Press, 2010.
• “Cancer Butch,” Cultural Anthropology 22(4), (November, 2007): 501-538.
• “Living in Prognosis: Toward and Elegiac Politics,” Representations 98 (Spring, 2007): 77-92.
• Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. Princeton University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-691-11908-3.
• “Violent Submission,” Cultural Critique 61 (Fall, 2005): 186-214.
• “Dangerous Instrumentality: The Bystander as Subject in Automobility,” Cultural Anthropology 19:1 (February, 2004): 61-94.
• “‘Come up to the Kool Taste’: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols,” Public Culture 15:3 (Spring, 2003).
• “Urban Errands: The Means of Mobility,” Journal of Consumer Culture 2:3 (November, 2002): 385-404.
• “Mysterious Delicacies and Ambiguous Agents: Lennart Nilsson in National Geographic.” Configurations 6:3 (Fall, 1998): 373-394.
• “Inscription Fantasies and Interface Erotics: Keyboards, Law, Repetitive Strain Injuries.” Hastings Journal of Women and Law 9:2 (Spring, 1998): 219-253.
• “Prosthetic Pathology: Enabling and Disabling the Prosthesis Trope.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 24:1 (Winter, 1998): 31-54.

Notes and references

1. Aneesh, Aneesh. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31(1): 154-157.
2. Bryan, Bradley. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law, Culture and the Humanities 4: 453-456.
3. Cole, Simon A. 2007. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law, Culture and the Humanities 48 (April): 450-451.
4. Daniels, Stephen. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law and Society Review 42(2): 443-445.
5. Gallagher, William T. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law and Politics Book Review 18(1): 4-6.
6. McLaughlin, George E. 2007. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. TRIAL 43(3):68.
7. Murphy, Michelle. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. American Anthropologist 110(3): 390-391.
8. Dr. Jain's book on Amazon
9. http://www.ucpress.edu/go/malignant
10. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7470/full/502167a.html
11. http://www.malignant.us
12. http://sha.americananthro.org/sha-prize-winners/
13. http://gad.americananthro.org/awards/

External links

• Stanford University Faculty Page for S. Lochlann Jain
• Stanford Anthropology website
• Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us book website.
• Appearances on C-SPAN